I can't wait for school to start because I'm really bored. So here is a very long post about shakespeare. You might have to read it in small chunks. Make little goals for yourself. I have faith you can finish it. :) So here we go.
Shakespeare! The week I've looked forward to since the same week a year ago when it ended. It is the best thing in the whole world!!! I love hanging out with my sisters, they are the best times I ever have, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival is pretty much top of the list for sister-time memories! We always have many adventures here. The main reason it is so entertaining is because its audience is made up of the hilarious elderly. Sometimes I forget that old people kind of run the entire universe.
The first play we saw was To Kill a Mockingbird. It was pretty good. I didn't like the actor who played Atticus though, so that was disappointing. Plus they had this creepy old lady actress who was being the "narration". She was onstage for the whole play, and she would just creep around in the back... It was weird. But overall, you've gotta just love that story :)
In between plays we would lounge around and read books, or go sit at the pool and read to give our white arms a little vitamin D. :)
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| Megan as Mary Stuart, Me as Queen Elizabeth |
The second play was later that night at the Adams theater, Mary Stuart. It was pretty cool, those actresses were top notch. (Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary) I really liked it.
However, the most interesting parts of this play happened before and after...
Before any of the plays start, they have the "greenshow" and everyone mills around watching that and getting concessions from the people in costumes with fake english accents. SO Me, Megan and Emma all decided we could do with a small pre-show treat. We went up to the stand and began deciding what we wanted. Now, you must understand, at this point in time, I was super addicted to this iced coffee stuff:
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| THE BEST.
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While all of this is happening, Emma is ordering some chocolate ice cream from another "british" wench. The price for said ice cream was $2.50 and Emma was like, sweet this better be a big ice cream. Here's what they gave her:
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| $2.50 |
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| Emma is being the sad Jean-Val Jean from Les Miserables :) |
The next day we saw Les Miserables. It was amazing. Seriously, it was so good. But. Emma did this thing where she withheld the tickets from Megan and I and then arranged them so that she sat in the middle of us. So Megan and I always sat by the crazy old people. In Les Miserables, I sat by this old guy who was kind of a hippie, he had long gray hair in a pony-tail with some radical sandals on his feet. He had. The WORST breath. It smelled so bad. Every now and then it would gently waft over to my nose and I swear...ugh. He was a very sweet man and he would get so into the play. Sometimes a song was so beautiful and touching to him that he'd let out a sigh of apprecitation... More like deathly sighs of appreciation 'mIrightt?? Maybe he'd had some black death iced coffee too.
Later that night we saw the Merry Wives of Windsor. This was my favorite Shakespeare play we saw :) It made me lol. The one jealous husband was played by this hilarious actor, he had the funniest physical comedy and he kinda looked like Arthur Weasley. (Funny tidbit: I almost ran him over on my bike yesterday, I was riding around campus and he came around a corner with his headphones in and didn't see me so it was almost fatal. But then we used our human reflexes and it was fine. He just smiled and laughed and I was just excited that I had almost crashed into a small celebrity!)
Anyways.
The next day. OH the next day! So Megan and I were waking up fairly early every morning to go running. On this particular day we got up around 7am and went out, not even that early, but for some reason, I was like WAY tired. I don't know why, but I was just, really really out of it. We went out, started running on the sidewalk by our hotel, and I tripped. You are thinking, okay, tripping happens all the time and yes, yes it does. (Especially in Cedar city, the sidewalks are crazy uneven.) So I tripped on this crack in the sidewalk, but my very tired brain just was not processing anything, so I had no reaction to it at all. I just fell. Flat on my face. Literally on my face, I didn't even realize I had tripped until I was on the ground. Megan was laughing so hard, I was amazed at the amount of control she had over her bladder that early. I slowly got up like a slug, still very confused and I finally registered the fact that I had fallen like a regular retard. Soon we were both laughing our heads off and all the people driving past in their cars were giving us frightened looks. And we were so tired we couldn't stop laughing. We tried running several times after that, but we'd just have to stop again because one of us was laughing uncontrollably again. It still makes us laugh when we think about it. It's especially funny, because whenever we retell it, everyone gives a small, half-hearted laugh, like "it's not funny guys." Whatever. Apparently it's not funny. Shut up.
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| I am Scapin, Emma is the other dude whose name I don't remember. :) |
OH grandma.
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| Emma being Titus Andronicus! |
Later that night we went and saw Titus Andronicus. That play was crazy. It's a history and pretty much everyone dies. It's very gory, many people get their hands and heads cut off. It was Megan's favorite, but all the old people were balling because it was so tragic.
At intermission, we encountered another weirdo, we were standing outside the theater talking. I was standing in front of a garbage can and I saw this kid with an empty container headed straight toward me and I was like, "oh, I better move out of the way of this garbage can," so I did. But instead of throwing it away he made an awkward turn towards Megan and was like "Are you that girl who got dragged up onstage in Scapin?" Emma and I were fighting laughter so hard, I thought Megan would say no, but then she said "yes" in a stiff Hermione sort of voice. The kid was like "Oh cool." and then walked off. What? It was the weirdest exchange and he didn't even throw away his garbage! It reminded me of a Michael Cera moment of some kind.
That was the last of our experiences with plays :) Here are some photos of our random adventuring.
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| Megan being scandalous with Shakespeare. |
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| Set for Mary Stuart |
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| Megan's shirt was static-y to the chair and it made a funny, cancerous-looking hump. |
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| "WE RUN THIS VILLAGE! buh duh na!" Jk. Bad joke. |
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| She's a little shy :) |
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Set for Merry Wives of Windsor We're Nerds for Shakespeare!! |
